Muslim leaders talk to Damascus allies
NZPA-Reuter Beirut Lebanese Muslim leaders are holding talks with their allies in the Syrian Government on reforming the Christian-dominated political system in Lebanon. The talks are part of Syrian- backed efforts to secure agreement on political reforms and set up a government of national unity that includes all the main Christian and Muslim leaders to implement them. A former Prime Minister, Rashid Karami, the Druse chieftain, Walid Jumblatt, and the Shi’ite Muslim
leader, Nabih Berri, saw a Syrian Vice-President, Abdel Halim Khaddam, yesterday, and Mr Karami said that they hoped to meet the President. Mr Hafez Assad, today. When reporters asked Mr Karami if he would be the next Prime Minister, as widely expected in Beirut, he said, “Don’t count the beans until they’re in the boiler.” Syria has 40,000 troops in Lebanon and has dominated political developments there since United States peace efforts collapsed in February.
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Press, 24 April 1984, Page 6
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